Just to let all hacks and journo hackers out there know, we’ll be running a ScraperWiki workshop at the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School. So get tickets whilst you can! The lineup looks amazing and the ScraperWiki gurus Nicola Hughes (@DataMinerUK) and Anna Powell-Smith (@darkgreener) will be at the summer school the whole time […]
We Eat Data – ScraperWiki talk at Open Knowledge Conference 2011
Our tamed computer programmer, ‘The Julian’, recently gave a rare appearance at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin (if you want an appearance pay us or ask us!). The spectacle of such scraping royalty drew more people than the room could accommodate (‘The Julian’ is not related to any royals living or deceased). As such […]
Opening Data at Open Knowledge Conference Berlin
If you haven’t already heard, the Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a one week conference in Berlin next week. We’re very excited and will be running workshops on the Monday and Tuesday. We hope to meet some of our German users and opening data in the way we know best. It’s an all-star line up […]
Hacks & Hackers Glasgow: the BBC College of Journalism video
Last month we celebrated the final leg of our UK & Ireland Hacks & Hackers tour in Glasgow, at an event hosted by BBC Scotland and supported by BBC College of Journalism and Guardian Open Platform. You can read more about it here. Other coverage includes: Guardian Local (Edinburgh) Guardian Developer blog The BBC College […]
Hacks & Hackers Cardiff: the video
Gavin Owen, a recent postgraduate student at the Skillset Media Academy Wales, has produced this excellent video from the Hacks & Hackers Hack Day in Cardiff last month. Read about the projects here, and watch what the journalists and programmers got up to, below:
D (ata) + J (ournalism) + Camp 2011 = #djcamp2011
Here at ScraperWiki we like to learn. and we also relish the opportunity to teach. Be it scraping or viewing, Ruby or Python or PHP: we want to spread the data and the scraping knowledge. So it’ll come as no big surprise that our head professor, Francis Irving, will be lending a scraping hand at […]
A Bonny Wee Hack Day at #hhhglas
For our first venture to Scotland where better to be than BBC Scotland! We had 8 teams of hacks and hackers digging around the Scottish data beat. For this very special occasion the ScraperWiki digger has donned tartan! With this special digger, fire incidents, planning applications, public-owned property and gifts councillors’ received have been mined. […]
Cardiff Hacks and Hackers Hacks Day
What’s occurin’? Loads in fact, at our first Welsh Hacks and Hackers Hack Day! From schools from space to catering colleges with a Food Safety Standard of 2, we had an amazing day. Check out the video by Gavin Owen: We got five teams: Co-Ordnance – This project aimed to be a local business tracker. […]
New event! Hacks & Hackers Glasgow (#hhhglas)
Calling journalists, bloggers, programmers and designers in Scotland! Scraperwiki is pleased to announce another hacks & hackers hack day: in Glasgow. BBC Scotland is hosting and sponsoring the one day event, with support from BBC College of Journalism. As with our other UK hack days, Guardian Open Platform is providing the prizes. Web developers and […]
New event! Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Cardiff (#hhhCar)
The UK Hacks & Hackers tour carries on – into 2011. Our first stop: Wales. Scraperwiki, which provides award-winning tools for screen scraping,data mining and visualisation, will hold a one day practical hack day* at the Atrium in Cardiff on Friday 11 March, 2011. Web developers and designers will pair up with journalists and bloggers […]